The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1887-11-11
Suicide of Anarchist Lingg.
lBy telegraph to the AsheviIle Citizen. |


CINCINNATI, Nov. 1O.-Lirgg, one
of the seven condemned anarchists
in Chicago jail shot himself this
morning through the head. The
shot proved fatal.
Louis Lingg the bomb maker has
just committed suicide by shooting
himself through the head, while in
his sell, in the county jail. How
he secured the weapon with which
the deed was committed is a m vs.
terry, as his cell and clothing was
again thoroughly searched vester-
day, and to ell appearances +he
guards that sit in front OF his cell
haye watched him every minute.
Lingg has always been regarded
as the most desperate anarchist of
the lot. 1t was him who manufac-
tured the bombs for the Haymarket
riot, AMI in whose cell the bombs
were found last Saturday.
Yesterday when one of guards
told him that the papers had pub
lished his letter to D. D. Lum, the
young bomb manufacturer exA
pressed strong desire Ito read it in
English" The jailor Folz consented.
and Lingg slowly plodded through
the translation. Englehart speaks
German, and when appealed to gave
Lingg the meaning of the English
word in German.
1t is now lea rned that Lingg end
ed his life by means ofa fulminat-
ing cap and not with a revolver as
was first stated, He had the cap
in his mouth and lit it with a candle
which was burning in his cell. The
explosion was the first warning that
the jail people had. The guard
seeing him with the candle in his
hand, supposed he was lighting
cigar. From the effects of the ex>
plosiqq half of his head was torn
away. Thus far it is impossible to
get further particulars of the affair
as nobody but the Jail officers are
allowed within the building now.
Immediately after the explosion,
Deputy O'Neal rushed into Lingg's
cell which was completely envel-
oped in smoke. There he found the
young anarchist lying ON his back
with terrible holes in his head from
which blood was rushing in torrents
He was at once carried into the jail
Office, and placed on table. He
was still breathing family; and
while DR.. Gray was examining him,
he coughed slightly, and the blood
poured forth again from his terrible
wounds, and from his mouth and
nose. The physician said the man
could only live ~an hour or SO at
most ; and he expects his death
every minute. At 10 o'clock he
was still alive.
The doomed man said the letter
was an admirable translation of the
original. Turning to another page
of the paper his eye caught the line,
"Lingg will surely hang" Calling
Englehart he asked, "What is the
meaning of this word IS -hu-r-e-l-y"
in German ?" EngIehart told him,
and Lingg laughing ly observed, so,
SO, 1 will s-h u-r ely hang" His
manner was such that Englshart
Joined in the laugh. "Say," the
blonde-haired young Anarchist
called to reporter, "did you see my
mgdschen." He was told that Eda
Muller had not been seen; and his
next query was, "has my scAats
Sweetheart gone to Springfield"
This question was answered IN the
affirmative. He seemed pleased
and remarked that if he could haye
seen her, he would have told her to
stay at home O'Neill one of the
two guards who remain on duty
before Lingg's cell throughout.the
day declared that Iingg was the
coolest man in Cook county Jail.
He was very pale but his appetite